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Online Lower Minnesota River Watershed District News, October 2004
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View of the fen on a cloudy day.
Boy Scout volunteers on a restoration project pack in to the fen.
After helping eradicate invasive reed canary grass (with herbicides), the Scouts planted native carex stricta or hummock sedge.
The red-stem aster, a native fen plant.
High quality fibrous peat on the left — and, on the right, degraded peat with reed canary grass root mass. |
Nicols Fen photosPhotos: Mark Cleveland, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. |